America’s extraordinary reckoning with sexual harassment, which has concluded the careers of dozens of high-profile men, is ricocheting back to the most powerful alleged predator of all: Donald Trump. During the presidential campaign, Trump was accused by at least 16 women of sexual misconduct, allegedly grabbing breasts, touching crotches, and forcing kisses—and won the election anyway. Now, after endorsing Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, who is also accused of multiple counts of sexual assault and impropriety, the president is once again being pressed to account for behavior that would have forced most other politicians to resign. “In an objective setting, without question, a person with this record would have entered the graveyard of political aspirations, never to return,” Rachel Crooks, a former receptionist who accused Trump of forcibly kissing her outside an elevator in 2005, said Monday at an event with other victims. “Yet here we are with that man as president.”

For the past year, Trump has dodged many of the questions that almost derailed his campaign in October 2016, when a leaked tape saw him boasting that he did, indeed, grab women’s genitals without their consent. Asked to respond to the allegations, the White House has repeatedly insisted that all of Trump’s accusers are lying. Among their ranks are his ex-wife Ivana,who once described her husband raping her in Trump Tower in a fit of rage after a botched scalp surgery. She later shifted her claim, saying she didn’t mean that her husband raped her in a “literal or criminal” sense. Monday, after three of Trump’s accusers were interviewed by Megyn Kelly, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters that the Trump administration would be putting out “multiple reports” of eyewitness accounts refuting the allegations, echoing an official statement sent to NBC News earlier in the day, which deemed the allegations “false.”

The numerous eyewitness reports have yet to materialize. On Tuesday morning, Trump tweeted that he didn’t know or had never met any of his accusers, in apparent contradiction of the White House line that witnesses to the interactions would exonerate him.

It is almost impossible to extricate Trump’s past behavior from his current support of Moore. Politico reports that, in private, the president has complained that the wave of women speaking out has become a problem, and has questioned the veracity of the claims against Moore, who denies all criminal wrongdoing. (One woman has accused him of attempted rape.) According to the Associated Press, Trump has explicitly linked the two, telling associates that charges against both are false.

It is an alliance that could prove disastrous for the president. Within the Republican establishment, there is an overwhelming feeling that the party’s association with Moore is toxic. On Monday, former secretary of state and Alabama native Condoleezza Riceissued a statement calling on Alabamians to “reject bigotry, sexism, and intolerance” and “insist that our representatives are dignified, decent, and respectful of the values we hold dear.” Richard Shelby, Alabama’s senior Republican senator, told CNN that he didn’t vote for Moore, doesn’t want him to win, and that if he does, the Senate should launch an investigation that could result in his expulsion. “There’s a tipping point,” he told Jake Tapper. “When it got to the 14-year-old’s story, that was enough for me.”

More dangerous is the heat that Moore’s scandals have brought back to Trump. “Women who accuse anyone should be heard,” Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said Sunday in an extraordinary rebuke to the president. “I know that he was elected, but women should always feel comfortable coming forward. And we should all be willing to listen to them.” Trump was reportedly infuriated and White House advisers “stunned” by the statement.

Across the aisle, Moore’s Senate race has galvanized Democrats to attack Trump. “President Trump has committed assault, according to these women, and those are very credible allegations of misconduct and criminal activity,” Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said Monday on CNN, calling on the president to be investigated and resign. “These allegations are credible; they are numerous,” she continued. “I’ve heard these women’s testimony, and many of them are heartbreaking.” Gillibrand is the fifth Democratic senator to call for Trump’s resignation in the last week, following similar comments by Senators Bernie Sanders,Jeff Merkley,Ron Wyden, and Cory Booker.

At least one of Trump’s accusers could take him to court, too. Former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos is suing the president for defamation in a case that could see Trump forced to testify about his claim that her sexual misconduct allegations were “all made up” and “all big lies.” Zervos is seeking an apology and almost $3,000 in damages. As the L.A. Times has noted, testifying under oath could “jeopardize Trump in the way that a similar case by Paula Jones jeopardized then-President Clinton”—especially given Trump’s history of saying things that are untrue.

The Zervos lawsuit, and the G.O.P. civil war over Trump and Moore’s conduct, leave both president and party in a tough position ahead of the 2018 elections. Supporting Moore was an easy way for Trump to re-align himself with his base, who stand firm in Alabama, but in the midterms, the Republicans will need to win over moderate voters, not just disciples of Trumpism. In the post-Weinstein climate, a president accused of sexual assault supporting another party member also accused of sexual assault could struggle to appeal to suburban women. As hopeful as the White House is that the issue was already litigated by voters in 2016, the court of public opinion is never over.